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Excellence in Sustainability

About Department of Planning, Industry and Environment

Department of Planning, Industy and Environment – action matters for business

Energy Efficient Business
Practical support to implement projects, access financial support, upskill your people, and measure and verify savings. We’ve helped train more than 15,000 professionals, and assisted businesses complete more than 19,000 projects, collectively saving $153 million off their energy bills annually.

Markets and Finance
We’re helping businesses and households get access to financial incentives to improve energy efficiency for gas and electricity under the NSW Energy Savings Scheme. We work with the business, residential and community sectors to investigate opportunities to improve energy efficiency through innovative finance. We’re delivering the $3m Gas Efficiency Funding Program, for gas energy efficiency projects in industrial and commercial business.

National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS)
We provide tools to measure the environmental performance of commercial buildings from operational data – and translate that into a simple six-star rating scale. NABERS has been instrumental in helping the Australian commercial building sector to become one of the world leaders in sustainability over the last decade.

Sustainability Advantage
Our program lifts competitiveness and helps businesses reduce costs, create new products and services and enhance environmental performance and reputation. We’ve helped over 500 medium-to-large organisations across NSW. Members benefit from individual support and strategic collaboration opportunities, and together save more than $100 million every year.